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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• sooner:
    1. I. Earlier: tempĕrius, mātūrius (v. early): tempestīvius, Hor. Od. 4, 1, 9. Expr. also by prius ... quam, ante ... quam (v. before). Phr.: the s. the better (= as soon as possible, q. v.), quamprimum, primo quoque tempore s. die, Cic.: the lot that s. or later is destined to leap forth, serius ocius sors exitura, Hor. Od. 2, 3, 26: s. or later we hasten to one common abode, serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam, Ov. M. 10, 33.
    2. II. More quickly: expr. by compar. adv. (v. soon, II.: quickly, speedily). Phr.: no s. said than done, dictum ac factum or dictum factum (Gr. ἅμα ἔπος ἅμα ἔργον), Ter. Andr. 2, 3, 7: cf. dicto citius, Virg. Aen. 1, 142: Liv. 23, 47.
    3. III. More willingly (= rather: q. v.): expr. by lĭbentius, pŏtius, măgis, etc. foll. by quam: or by some verb denoting preference (v. to prefer). In Cic. Off. 1, 18, we find even citius = potius: simly. in id. Tusc. 5, 27, 77, prius = potius.
    4. IV. More easily:
      1. 1. ōcius: that nook of yours will s. produce pepper and frankincense than the grape, angulus iste feret piper et tus ocius uva, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 23.
      2. 2. făcĭlius: nothing is s. said, nil est dictu f., Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 70: and gen. by a compar. adv. (see also easily).
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• SOONER
Rather, potius: citius: prius. Sooner than, potius quam; citius quam; prius quam; also, non tam cito... quam (putting, of course, the epithet that is preferred after the quam; e.g., quem tu non tam cito rhetorem dixisses, quam...: πολιτικόν, i. e., would sooner call a πολιτικός than a rhetorician): I would sooner die than, etc., mori malo, quam, etc.